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Use for: Untitled, Pastoral peoples, Peuples pastoraux

• No statutory limitation period shall apply to war crimes and crimes against humanity, irrespective of the date of their commission
• Les crimes qualifiés de crimes de guerre ou crimes contre l'humanité sont considérés imprescriptibles, quelle que soit la date à laquelle ils ont été commis.

Use for: Untitled, Alternative sentencing

• Measures intended "to promote greater community involvement in the management of criminal justice" and "to promote among offenders a sense of responsibility towards society", by reducing the use of imprisonment and by "rationalizing criminal justice polices, taking into account the observation of human rights, the requirements of social justice and the rehabilitation needs of the offenders" (Tokyo Rules - 1)
• Mesures visant «à encourager la collectivité à participer davantage au processus de la justice pénale et plus particulièrement au traitement des délinquants ainsi qu'à développer chez ces derniers le sens de leur responsabilité envers la société», et à «Réduire le recours à l'incarcération, et pour rationaliser les politiques de justice pénale, eu égard au respect des droits de l'homme, aux exigences de la justice sociale et aux besoins de réinsertion des délinquants» (Règles de Tokyo - 1.2 et 1.5)

Use for: Untitled, Internal armed conflicts, Conflicts, Conflits armés internes

• Are included "armed conflicts in which peoples are fighting against colonial domination and alien occupation and against racist regimes in the exercise of their right of self-determination" (Geneva Conventions, Protocol I) and "which take place in the territory of a High Contracting Party between its armed forces and dissident armed forces or other organized armed groups which, under responsible command, exercise such control over a part of its territory as to enable them to carry out sustained and concerted military operations" (i.e. non-international armed conflicts, see Geneva Conventions Protocol II); are not included "situations of internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots, insolated and sporadic acts of violence and other acts of a similar nature" (Geneva Conventions Protocol II)

• Principle or practice of countries (or nations) not becoming involved in the affairs of other countries.

Use for: Untitled, Refoulement, Voluntary repatriation, Refoulement, Rapatriement librement consenti

• Article 33 of the 1951 Refugee Convention prohibits the expulsion or the return ("refoulement") of a refugee "in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion"
• L'article 33 de la Convention relative au statut des réfugiés stipule qu'aucun pays hôte «n'expulsera ou ne refoulera, de quelque manière que ce soit, un réfugié «sur les frontières des territoires o? sa vie ou sa liberté serait menacée en raison de sa race, de sa religion, de sa nationalité, de son appartenance à un certain groupe social ou de ses opinions politiques.»

• Individuals or entities responsible for human rights violations or crimes, and who are not acting under the lawful authority of any State

Use for: Untitled, Non-registered Indians

• People of the aboriginal descent who are not included in the statutory definition of "Indian" incorporated in the federal Indian Act
• Il s'agit des personnes d'origine autochtone qui n'entrent pas dans el cadre de la définition du terme "indien" telle qu'inscrite dans la loi fédérale sur les indiens